Dawg gawn my radiator is limed up bad

Brown Swiss · May 30, 2017

I have the radiator still in the tractor capped up soaking in acid, strait acid from the milk house. I took the lower radiator hose off and looked in and I could see lime sickles (if that is the best way to describe them) on the bottom of the cores. I talked to my parents and they were going to town anyway so they are going pick me up 8 gallons of vinegar and I will fill the tractor and run the darn thing to try and boil some of it out. Then after first crop hay I am going to take the radiator to the radiator master in Iowa and have him recore it, best fix for it. It only cost money.

Dune Country · May 30, 2017

maybe lime tights?

Did a tour of the Oregon caves that had stalactites and stalagmites.
Tour gal said the easy way to remember which is which is to think of little sally standing on a anthill, as the mites go up the tights go down :lol:

Steve@Advance · May 30, 2017

Good luck with that...

Keep a close watch on the temp gauge!

Steve in VA · May 30, 2017

I was told the tites had to hold on tight to avoid falling from the ceiling and the mites might grow up to reach the ceiling.

rrlund · May 30, 2017

I hope you don't end up with a big puddle on the ground like I did when I used muriatic acid in mine.

The 2-105 got so bad a year ago that I blew a top radiator hose first,then the seam split and the top tank blew off a few days later.

New rads in both Whites now. Sure is a pleasure not to have to watch that gauge all the time.

rrlund · May 30, 2017

Something else. My son told me they run a product called Purple Ice in the race cars. Mix it with water. He said it'll drop the temp about 10 degrees,about half that if it's mixed with anti freeze. If you don't eat holes in the radiator,it might buy you some time until you can get it re cored.

Brown Swiss · May 30, 2017

It only has to do a few weeks! Well weather pending! LOL That acid loosened that lime up well, then I ran it with the full strength store bought vinegar. Got a fair amount to come out, ran a little cooler and didn't throw water out after that! It will do as a bandage for now!

Brown Swiss · May 30, 2017

Thanks for the tip, I see O'Reillys handles it, I am just going to run water in it till I re core it so that will help also. I ordered thermostats from them Sunday and they said they would be here Today (Tuesday). But I don't need them, I took the ones out in the tractor and boiled them and they are working just fine, so I threw them back in, but will pick them up at the store and have them on a shelf so I will forget where they are when I need them! LOL I will just pick up some Purple Ice when I am there.

D beatty · May 30, 2017

You could have bought white vinegar and fill it and let it set. White vinegar will loosen and break down the lime.

Brown Swiss · May 31, 2017

I filled the radiator with phosphoric acid from the milk house and left it set for a few hours, then drained rinsed and connected the hoses back up and filled the whole system with white vinegar, then ran it!

BarnyardEngineering · May 31, 2017

That purple ice stuff is a sham. It doesn't work.

rrlund · May 31, 2017

Tell that to all the guys who run it in the race cars.

Ozlander · May 31, 2017

(quoted from post at 11:35:51 05/31/17) Tell that to all the guys who run it in the race cars.

Hey race car guys, Purple Ice is a scam.

mmidlam · Jun 2, 2017

Might be able to unsolder the tank and ream out cores with the right size dip stick.

Dawg gawn my radiator is limed up bad

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